The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760
by Richard Maxwell Eaton
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In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard Eaton uses archaeological evidence, monuments, narrative histories, poetry, and Mughal administrative documents to trace the long historical encounter between Islamic and Indic civilizations. Moving from the year 1204, when Persianized Turks from North India annexed the former Hindu states of the lower Ganges delta, to 1760, when the British East India Company rose to political dominance there, Eaton explores these moving frontiers, focusing especially on agrarian growth and religious change.
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History, Islam, Geschichte 1204-1760, Islam, india, Bengal (india), historyPlaces
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The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760
1999, University of California Press
in English
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The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760
1993, University of California Press
in English
0520080777 9780520080775
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-341) and index.
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
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